How I’d fix Canterlot Wedding:
MAKE EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER IN EQUESTRIA (Animals included, especially Fluttershy’s) get some serious gut feelings around the Fake Cadence. Oh, and she glitches at certain angles (GENIUS), her reflection is… weird, and Shining’s eyes have this green tint to em. Even the CMC and the other foals get onto something!! The Cakes (Pound and Pumpkin Cake) start BAWLING when the fake Cadence is nearby, Zecora makes an appearance and knows that something is very wrong (Aka “Something evil lurks within- do not be fooled by her outward skin”), foals hiding behind their family members when she walks by, the environment responds to her presence, the food begins to go bad when she’s around, Rarity’s fabrics turn dark colors, candles and torches go out, the buzzing of bug wings is heard at certain times, music goes off key, etc. Heck, Luna’s dream magic starts going haywire! And the environment even responds, too! Oh, and she gaslights everyone into thinking that it’s just “wedding stress”.
More details of foreshadowing:
Aka plants start dying, animals start running away, foals, fillies, and colts get realistically uneasy around her, etc.
EVEN MAGIC DOESN’T WORK RIGHT!!
And music? TOTALLY off key!
Her shadow isn’t the right shape, either.
Pinkie’s Pinkie sense? ABSOLUTELY HAYWIRE. (Maud Pie even makes a cameo, with one line: “There’s something wrong with her…”)
Even other ponies realistically refuse to work around her!
Hell , even the Crystal Empire Ambassadors (Who foreshadow Season 3) who make cameos here are all like “That’s not our princess.”
Applejack’s Family? All of their apples go bad when she walks by!
And when Chrysalis reveals herself in the second part? ALL THAT BUILDUP WAS WORTH IT. And everyone doesn’t just gasp. They SCREAM. Like “There really WAS SOMETHING WRONG AND WE DID NOT KNOW!!!!” Full on HORROR MOVIE SCREAM. And they get up from their seats and start running in absolute fear towards the exit!!
AKA:
O-O (Horrified Stares)…
“AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!” (Simultaneous Screaming) (Individual screams would be recorded first, then all of those screams would be layered together)
(A massive stampede filled with drinks and weapons dropping, guards nearly fainting, and tables flipping- Celestia FAINTS (Which shows that things have gotten WAY WORSE), Luna is all like “I knew something was off!”, the music slows to a halt as everypony drops their instruments and runs, ponies throw themselves out windows to escape, the doves scatter in horror, the Wonderbolts immediately book it (And they Sky-Write the word “RUN!!!” As they escape, to add to the hilarity), Food goes flying everywhere, Bon Bon yells “Every Mane For Themselves!!”, Vinyl Scratch hides behind her DJ booth, Twilight’s Parents faint in absolute horror, Prince Blueblood (Who makes a cameo here) SCREAMS LOUD ENOUGH TO SHATTER GLASS (And the ice sculpture), Granny Smith throws her dentures and breaks a glass window with it, Derpy grabs an entire thing of muffins and runs for it, Pinkie screams “THE BRIDE IS A BUUUUUG!!!” (Andrea Libman would KILL IT), the Real Cadence is all like “You were right, Twilight! You were right!” (Without words, of course), etc.)
Genius.
No wonder why that massive scream when Chrysalis is revealed is UTTERLY EARNED.
And when Celestia FAINTS? Everypony screams LOUDER. (And it’s a lot more impactful than the magic beam struggle between her and Chrysalis we got in the second part)
And of course, Chrysalis is like: “My… that was better than expected.”
